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ALEXIS, Andre; BAZIJU [Roo Borson and Kim Maltman]. HIJ Ten. Toronto: BookThug, 2015. Limited Edition. 120x165mm. Stapled Wrappers. Fine. np. One of 30 copies issued. Two stapled chapbooks, each with HIJ handstamped to the front cover above the author's name and the date 18/01/2015; 20 pages (Alexis) and 16 pages (Baziju) respectfully; both housed in a plain white envelope with HIJ / TEN hand stamped to the front. Produced for the tenth installment of a reading series called HIJ, loosely based on a journal run by the hosts Jay & Hazel Millar in the early 1990s. Alexis' booklet contains dog poetry from his novel Fifteen Dogs; Baziju's booklet contains three prose poems and three translations from the Chinese of Li Bai. The reading was a unique occasion as it was the first time in all their friendship that Alexis and Borson/Maltman had ever read together. Other firsts: it was produced for the first ever public reading of Baziju's translations from the Chinese of Li Po, as well as the first public reading from Alexis' Fifteen Dogs, which went on to win the 2015 Giller Prize. Alexis has neatly signed his chapbook on the front.

IÃ­m not even going to try to sell you this one. If youÃ­re curious, order it. Subscribers will get a copy whether they like it or not. IÃ­ll guess youÃ­ll just have to trust me.AVAILABLEISBN 0-9781587-5-XPoetry; 30 pp; 5.5x8.5; Stapled and bound into wrappers50 copies

New York: New Directions, 1974. Third Printing. 8vo. 152pp. Trade Paperback. Author's second book and first novel, written in the tradition of Roussel, Queneau, Perec and Mathews by using a constrictive form that adds one letter of the alphabet for each chapter, and then takes them away. Fine, with a black mark to the tail edges.

ADAMSON, Gil. Help Me, Jacques Cousteau. Erin: The Porcupine's Quill, 1995. First Edition. 221x116mm. Trade Paperback. Inscribed by Author. Fine. 149pp. Inscribed on the title page by Adamson in the year of publication to the poet Victor Coleman.

ADAMSON, Gil. Help Me, Jacques Cousteau. Erin: The Porcupine's Quill, 1995. First Edition. 221x116mm. Trade Paperback. Inscribed by Author. Fine. 149pp. A nice copy of the author's first trade book of short fiction, with an inscription and signature from the author "at the launch" dated Nov 95. With launch invitation postcard tipped in.

Toronto: Produce Press, 2005. Limited First Edition. Oblong 16mo. 119pp. One of 400 copies perfect bound (using glue guns no less) into silver coated paper, with the covers silk-screened and decorated with what the publishers call 'gore' (this seems to be a rather heavy red paint). The tail edges have also been treated with 'gore', often sticking the pages together making it possible to read the book only after physically separating them. The tail edge has also been cut on an odd angle, giving the book a rather bird-like shape when opened.

Toronto: Intruder Press, 1980. First Edition. 8vo. 339pp. Hardcover in dustjacket, both Fine. Illustrated with a section of black and white plates from photographs. With an introduction by Raymond Souster. The author's story of his experience in the Royal Canadian Air Force 418 bomber squadron, written in collaboration with Souster because the author had read On Target, Souster's novel on a similar subject, and had felt that Souster might be sympathetic to his work.

Tucson: Chax Press, 1986. Limited Edition. 8vo. Sewn Into Self Wrappers. Inscribed by Author. Fine. np [12 pages]. One of 160 copies sewn into self wrappers. This copy has been signed twice by the author and warmly inscribed to a fellow poet on the limitations page.

ALEXIS, Andre. Beauty & Sadness. Toronto: Anansi, 2010. First Edition. 189x130mm. Trade Paperback. New. 268pp. Beauty and Sadness is a journey through literary space with one of our most perceptive writers. Award-winning novelist and critic AndrÄ Alexis explores worlds with names such as "Henry James," "Maupassant," and "Kawabata," trying, like any traveller, to faithfully convey what he sees and feels in those places while giving a convincing portrait of himself. At the same time, Beauty and Sadness is an autobiography. Alexis's intent is to give a sense of what it is like to live ecstatically through literature -- what it is like to read Tolstoy and feel that "The Death of Ivan Ilych," for instance, is connected to the land of his birth, Trinidad, as intimately as it is to his home, Canada. In the final piece of the book, entitled "Water," Alexis gives the reader an intimate sense of what it has been like to live as a writer these last twenty years while practicing an art form (fiction/literature) that he contends is in decline. In the author's own words: "Beauty and sadness is where world and words meet."

Cambridge: Equipage, 1997. First Edition in English, translated by Kevin Nolan (poems are published in parallel with their French Originals). 8vo. np 20 pages]. Stapled into printed wrappers. Some light rubbing to the wrappers, otherwise fine. This is a presentation copy from the translator.